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| Author(s): |
Jennifer Jane Serra
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes |
| Defense date: | 2011-08-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcius Freire;
Fernão Pessoa Ramos;
Carlos Francisco Perez Reyna
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| Advisor: | Marcius Freire |
| Abstract | |
This research aims to examine how the viewer can read animated films through a documentary reading and how animation can be used as a discursive strategy by documentary films. For this purpose, films classified - by their makers or institutions related to the cinema field - as "animated documentary" were chosen and used under the Semio-Pragmatic approach. The objective is to analyze this kind of production based on the concept of "documentarizing mode of reading" proposed by theorist Roger Odin. The set of films for this analysis consists of: Silence (Orly Yadin and Sylvie Bringas, England, 1998), A is for Autism (Tim Webb, England, 1992); Animated Minds (Andy Glynne, England, 2003 and 2008); Revolving Door (Alexandra and David Beesley, Australia, 2006); The Rê Bordosa Dossier (Cesar Cabral, Brazil, 2008), O Divino, De Repente (Fábio Yamaji, Brazil, 2009). The analysis of these films and other animated documentaries shows that the reading of an animated documentary articulates operations and production of meaning and affects related to both the fields of documentary and animation. The operations of the reading process of an animated documentary are raised by animation's narrative strategies, such as metamorphosis, symbolism, performance, etc., and the documentarizing reading can be produced by elements concerned to stylistic aspects of the documentary, but also based on elements of animation. In addition, animation has the power to make visible what is invisible to the human eye and to the camera, making the animated documentary a powerful tool to reveal feelings, thoughts and ideas and to explore issues through a subjective approach. The relationship between animation and documentary narrative in the animated documentary, however, has a tension. Because animation is traditionally associated with the fairytale world and it has a subjective nature it conflicts with the vision of the documentary as an objective narrative about the real and related to scientific discourses. In the process of the animated documentary reading this tension is present and one of its peculiarities. The contradictory nature of the junction between animation and documentary draws to the viewer the attention for new possibilities of representations about the historical world beyond the established modes of documentary narrative and it raises the viewer's reflection about the approach of the issues involved in the assertions made by the film (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/04619-0 - The Animated Documentary - a relationship between animation and non-fiction film |
| Grantee: | Jennifer Jane Serra |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |